Gert-Jan Burgers & Jan Paul Crielaard
Greek colonists and indigenous populations at L’Amastuola,
southern Italy
The Archaic settlement at L’Amastuola (15 km north-west of Taranto) is considered as a key site for the understanding of processes of colonization and modes of interactions between indigenes and Greeks. In this article, we present some preliminary results of fieldwork carried out between 2003 and 2005 in and around L’Amastuola. The outcomes of our excavations and surface surveys shed new light on the nature and occupation history of the site. During the late 8th century it was settled by indigenous people, who possibly around 670 BC fortified the hill top with a double circumvallation. The site is characterized by a heterogeneous material culture, with ‘typical indigenous’ items, such as the defensive system, hut plans and ceramic repertoires, fused with ‘typical Greek’ items, such as house plans, pottery and burial customs. This suggests that L’Amastuola housed an independent community, with a mixed indigenous-Greek background. A highly significant piece of evidence for this is a stele of indigenous type found among burials that are in line with Greek traditions. This situation lasted until the first half of the 5th century, when we witness substantial alterations in the organization of settlement and cemeteries, and in land use. We argue that these changes mark the westward colonial expansion of Taras, and propose that the L’Amastuola area was incorporated in the Tarentine chora not around 675 BC - as some scholars suggest - but only in the course of the 5th century.
Volume 1
Conrad M. Stibbe
Three Silens from Olympia and ‘The International Style’
in Late Archaic Greek Bronze Statuettes — view the abstract
Marie-Laurence Haack
Phocéens et Samiens à Gravisca — view the abstract
Dimitra Andrianou
A World in Miniature: Greek Hellenistic Miniature Furniture
in Context — view the abstract
Babette Bechtold
Alcune osservazioni sui rapporti commerciali fra Cartagine,
la Sicilia occidentale e la Campania (IV-metà del II sec. a.C.):
nuovi dati basati sulla distribuzione di ceramiche campane e
nordafricane/cartaginesi — view the abstract
Evelien Denecker & Katelijn Vandorpe
Sealed amphora stoppers and tradesmen in Greco-Roman Egypt:
archaeological, papyrological and inscriptional evidence — view the abstract
Miko Flohr
Nec quicquam ingenuum habere potest officina? — view the abstract
Spatial contexts of urban production at Pompeii, AD 79
Domenico Esposito
I pittori dell’officina dei Vettii a Pompei — view the abstract
Meccanismi di produzione della pittura parietale romana
Gemma Jansen
Toilets with a View — view the abstract
The Luxurious Toilets of the Emperor Hadrian at his Villa near Tivoli
Alessandro Blanco
Recenti scoperte alle Piccole Terme di Villa Adriana — view the abstract
Anna Marie Nielsen
A Reworked Antisthenes — view the abstract
Armando Cristilli
L’Iside Pelagia di Budapest: problemi di iconografia e di cronologia — view the abstract
Stefania Pafumi
Per la ricostruzione degli arredi scultorei del Palazzo dei
Cesari sul Palatino: scavi e rinvenimenti dell’abate francese
Paul Rancurel (1774-1777) — view the abstract
Stephan T.A.M. Mols
The urban context of the Serapeum at Ostia — view the abstract
Neeltje Oome
The Caseggiato del mitreo di Lucrezio Menandro (I iii 5) — view the abstract
A Case-study of Wall Painting in Ostia
Cristina Corsi
Trade and Trade Routes in Southern Latium in Late Antiquity — view the abstract
Conrad M. Stibbe
Zwei ‘neue’ schwarzfigurige lakonische Kratere aus Samos — view the abstract
J.M. Hemelrijk
Describing meanders on geometric vases; profile drawings
showing the transition from neck to shoulder — view the abstract
A review article on CVA National Museum Athens, fasc. 5
Volume 2
J.J. Brouwers
From Horsemen to Hoplites — view the abstract
Some Remarks on Archaic Greek Warfare
Michael C. Scott
Putting Architectural Sculpture into its Archaeological context — view the abstract
The Case of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi
Benjamin D. Rous
Forms of Cult? — view the abstract
Temples with transverse cellae in Republican and early Imperial Italy
Hanna Stöger
Monumental Entrances of Roman Ostia — view the abstract
Architecture with Public Associations and Spatial Meaning
J.M. Hemelrijk, in collaboration with Elisabeth den Boer
Four New Campana Dinoi, a New Painter, Old Questions — view the abstract
